Nifty 50km New Forest Gravel Ride - Free Route Download (Christmas Gift to you!)

[@CycleXplorer]

Fancy giving it a go?

[@lizzycampbell3665]

Yes! Looks great

[@CycleXplorer]

@ gravel bike or mountain bike?

[@dutydruid9375]

thank you for this. Your content is great. Im a bit biased as the New Forest is fairly local to me. I'll definately do this ride and check out your other forest rides.

[@lizzycampbell3665]

Another fantastic looking route can’t wait to try it next time I’m down in the new forest

[@CycleXplorer]

Hope you have fun on the gravel 🚴

[@davidhall5560]

Inspirational as always. Thanks. All the best for your events in 2025.

[@CycleXplorer]

Thanks for the double comment too, got to be good for the algorithm 😂

[@davidlester963]

Thank-you we've been planning a ride in the NF for a while and this looks great!

[@CycleXplorer]

Nice one. Hopefully it serves you well! Conditions not too bad for the winter, there are some other nice area but this time of year they tend to get a bit wet and boggy.

[@30RidesRTW]

Getting into gravel this year and looking forward to some local New Forest routes. Thanks for the gpx file, really appreciated.

[@CycleXplorer]

Enjoy. There are a lot of options in the New Forest. You can make some really big loops if you add some road and push out to places like Moors Valley and Verwood Forest. Or you can do some nice shorter loops and barely see the road!

[@timmcdowell3097]

Spot on route that one. Thanks Tom, I’ll be using that in the coming weeks now

[@CycleXplorer]

Cheers, Tim. Enjoy! Cheeky trip to the bike shop too.

[@davidhall5560]

Inspirational as always. Thanks. All the best for your events in 2025. I actually planned this same route in reverse last week starting from the airfield😁

[@CycleXplorer]

And to you. That would also be a good place to start, lots of parking up there and in nicer weather an ice cream van 🚐

[@MarkDeBeau]

Thanks for the video, looks like the perfect ride for my first visit to the New Forest, hopefully next week. I’d been trying to work out a good route using Komoot but all seem to have been created by a Bot with no local knowledge! I’ll miss out the Ringwood start as I’m coming from Sussex. Any recommendations for parking somewhere on the route? Thanks

[@CycleXplorer]

Thanks. As you're coming from Sussex you may be able to park in the Cadnam area and then ride one of the small roads over to Minstead (where you could also probably park). Alternatively you could come off at Cadnam and go north and round to Forest Road/Stoney Cross where there is parking. Bit more of a faff to get there but easy back onto the A31 after. It's getting on and off the a31 which is the hard bit as after Cadnam it's pretty much then Burley Services where you can go turn and go back the other way. Otherwise there is plenty of parking etc down in Lyndhurst. You could then ride up to join the route. My 100km route would have a way, but it'll obviously make it longer than 50km. Enjoy!

[@ournexus7235]

Thanks. Looks ideal for a hardtail winter ride. Do you know roughly how many gates you encounter on this please?

[@CycleXplorer]

I think you'll get to enjoy 9 of the finest gates the New Forest has to offer. Most are in the first half of the ride. Thanks for watching.